TSA Just Gets Better and Better
Published January 2nd, 2008Now they’ve deemed laptop batteries as too dangerous to have on planes. Check that - not ALL laptop batteries. Just SPARE ones. Good grief. I would also like to direct you to the NY Times Blog Post “The Airport Security Follies” that talks about how absurd TSA “safety” has become. A particularly salient passage:
The three-ounce container rule is silly enough — after all, what’s to stop somebody from carrying several small bottles each full of the same substance — but consider for a moment the hypocrisy of T.S.A.’s confiscation policy. At every concourse checkpoint you’ll see a bin or barrel brimming with contraband containers taken from passengers for having exceeded the volume limit. Now, the assumption has to be that the materials in those containers are potentially hazardous. If not, why were they seized in the first place? But if so, why are they dumped unceremoniously into the trash? They are not quarantined or handed over to the bomb squad; they are simply thrown away. The agency seems to be saying that it knows these things are harmless. But it’s going to steal them anyway, and either you accept it or you don’t fly.
Note that this column is written by one Patrick Smith, a commercial airline pilot.
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